You’re right. It’s the same kind of person. They transferred the religious sensibilities from God unto the government.
Precisely. Each nation has something of a national character, for good or bad. When Italians go bad they go bad in Italian ways, when Americans or Germans go bad they go bad in American or German ways.
The Jewish people were made by God to bring the Messiah. When they go bad they go bad in the Jewish way...which is to say they transplant the Messianism that should be ordered toward God instead toward the things of man—”fixing” the world via money, political power, the arts, activism.
Evil is everywhere on the march; all have abandoned God. The Golden Age of *everyone* is ending.